trivia

Trivia - facts of no importance. For example, it's true that the Nile is the longest river on earth... but who cares? Trivia games are games in which participants compete in answering questions about trivia, and include Trivial Pursuit, Jeopardy and Win Ben Stein's Money.

In Roman times, when you would come to a fork in the road, there would be signs up. The signs would point to three different cities. On each sign was a general census report about the city the sign pointed at.

The Seven Liberal Arts can be arranged into two groups, the second group (known as the artes reales or physicae) is made up of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. The first group, though, is where "trivia" comes from.